Stereophonic
$37.73
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2025
Summary
Winner of five 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Play
An epic play with music that examines the human costs of the quest for artistic greatness.
The place: Sausalito. The time: the mid-1970s. The carpet: brown shag. Stereophonic brings us inside the cloistered world of a recording studio as a rock band on the brink of superstardom attempts to create their sophomore album. The ensuing pressures open up cracks in the band’s once-easy cam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781636702162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1636702163 |
| Author: | David Adjmi, Will Butler |
| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 136mm |
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Critics Review
“The best play of the year is David Adjmi’s shattering Stereophonic…And not just the year’s best, but one of the best works of narrative art about the day-to-day grind and emotional toll of artistic creation.”
-Washington Post
“However you want to categorize Stereophonic–perhaps a playical?–the great thing is that it doesn’t founder, as most theatrical treatments of the artistic process do, on either side of the genre divide. The music justifies the long buildup, and the play, Adjmi’s best so far, is as rich and lustrous as they come. You could even call it platinum.”
–New York Times
“The heart of the play…lies in the minutiae: the coffee maker, the intricacies of a bass line, how to tune a snare drum. Stereophonic is constructed out of those hypernaturalistic details, with each little frustration along the way to an album building on the next, like a fugue, up to the points when those songs start to come together, the play breaks open, and, against all indications, incandescent art comes out.”
–Vulture
“Does Stereophonic rock? It does, hard. Instant classic.”
–Observer
“Feels like listening to a favorite LP: rich in content, dynamic in production, wondrous in effect, and worth playing over and over.”
–Theaterly
David Adjmi
David Adjmi’s was published by HarperCollins in 2020.
Will Butler was released in September 2023 on Merge Records.
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